Ballinafad - Citizendia

Ballinafad
Béal an Átha Fada

Location

WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates:
54°01′39″N 8°20′14″W / 54.0275, -8.3372

Irish grid reference
G779087

Statistics

90 m

Population (2002)
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Ballinafad (Irish: Béal an Átha Fada, meaning Mouth of the long ford) is a village in County Sligo, Ireland. Basic concept of GPS operation A GPS receiver calculates its position by carefully timing the signals sent by the constellation of GPS Satellites high above the Earth The Irish grid reference system is a system of geographic Grid references commonly used in Ireland (both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland Poetic description This dinnseanchas poem named Ard Ruide (Ruide Headland poetically describes the kingdoms of Ireland Since the late 16th century the Island of Ireland has been divided into 32 counties ( Irish language contae or condae County Sligo ( is a county in the province of Connacht in the west of Ireland. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Irish (ga ''Gaeilge'' is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish. County Sligo ( is a county in the province of Connacht in the west of Ireland. Ireland ( Irish: Éire, ˈeːrʲə is a country in north-western Europe. There is also a village Ballinafad in Connemara, County Galway. Connemara (in Irish: Conamara) which derives from Conmhaicne Mara (meaning descendants of Con Mhac of the sea is a district in the west of County Galway (Contae na Gaillimhe is located on the West Coast of Ireland.

Ambrose O'Higgins, who became governor of Chile and viceroy of Perú, was born in this area. Ambrose was father of Bernardo O'Higgins, leader of South American emancipation.

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